Category Archives: Big Data

Last week was the marvelous international conference for digital humanities, held this year at beautiful University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Over the course of 4 days, I tried desperately to meet people I only knew from tiny Twitter pictures or gitHub or … Continue reading →

With Matt Jockers’ new book out, and the reviews already coming in, I’m starting to find the macroanalysis/microanalysis framework a little lacking. It’s not that I don’t think it a good approach, and it takes many forms in digital humanities … Continue reading →

The IEEE International Conference on Big Data in July will feature a workshop on Big Data in digital humanities scholarship–which its organizers refer to as Big Humanities. It’s hard to tell what big data means these days. Is 30,000 British … Continue reading →

Part 1: The Weird Geometry of the Internet Part 3: If you liked Dwarf Fortress, you’ll love Twilight: Breaking Dawn Example of Thematic Relationships I received quite a few comments about the last article, most of which I haven’t approved, … Continue reading →

I’m here at the HASTAC conference at the beautiful and only slightly snowy University of Michigan, where Dan Atkins has explained how cyberinfrastructure works from the e-science perspective. He notes that the NSF can’t fund “humanist” endeavors, but is amenable … Continue reading →

One of the responses I’ve heard to the Wikipedia Map in the last post is that it tracks to population density, so I grabbed a population density map from SEDAC and created a few comparative maps at similar scales to … Continue reading →

You can see further maps examining the relationship between population density and Wikipedia article density here. Such is the nature of the modern university that a sudden spark of inspiration can lead to a quick and radical dive into data … Continue reading →

I’m not very good at keeping a secret, especially when I have draft after draft of Skittles-colored networks to show off, but I tried my best this time to keep this process under my hat until I had something to … Continue reading →